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No. 245,671. Patented Aug. 16,1881.

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GEORGE STOUT AND ALEXANDER C. STOUT, OF BOSTON, MASS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,671, dated August 16, 1881.

Application filed November 26, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE STOUT and ALEXANDER CHARLES STOUT, both of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Toy, which we call the Magic Targetfof which the following is a specification.

The nature of our invention is that of a circular or other shaped face-plate, made of metal, Wood, or other substance, with a handle attached to its lower edge and an aperture in the middle, and bearing on the ,back side of it a plate sliding up and down in guides, which plate is held down by stops attached to the rear side of the face-plate, or drawn up by a spring, which latter is put in action by the percussion upon the sliding plate of a ball of wood, thrown upon it by the contraction of a rubber string, by which the ball is attached to the face-plate, the drawing up of the faceplate indicating the successful striking of the plate by the ball; and the object is the furnishing ot' a toy for children and others.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of our device. Fig. 2 is a back view of the same.

In the drawings, A, Fig. 1, is the handle, to which is attached the disk or face plate B, at the center of which is the circular aperture C, Fig. l.

D, Fig. 1, is a boss cast upon the disk B, to a hole through which is attached a narrow strip of rubber, E E, Figs. 1 and 2. The lower end of this rubber strip passes through a wooden ball, F, and is knotted, as seen, to prevent the ball slipping off on the obverse side of the disk B. (See Fig. 2.)

G G are two short square projections cast upon the disk, called the guides, and hearing, passing from one to the other, a wire, H, permanently fastened to them. Between these guides G G, and beneath the wire H, slides up and down the plate J J, Fig. 2, fashioned at its top as seen, orin any other shape. This plate J carries at or near its longitudinal center a boss, K, Fig. 2. Beneath this boss passes a loop of rubber, L, whose either ends are passed over two projections, M M, (seen in both figures,) cast upon the periphery of the face-plate B.

N N, Fig. 2, are two projections from, respectively, the lower corners of the plate J.

P P, Fig. 2, are two projections cast on the disk B, near its lower edge and on its rear (No model.)

side, and are champfered off to an inclined plane on their upper sides.

Operation of the invention: The operator, holding with the left hand the device by the handle A, placing a finger ot' the right hand on the boss K, presses down the plate J till it reaches the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, when the projections N N of the plate, sliding over the inclined planes of the bosses P P, catch upon their lower sides. The device is then turned round so as to present the face, as shown in Fig. 1. The ball F (for which we sometimes substitute an arrow or dartlis then taken by the right hand and drawn backward, stretching the rubber string E'to any desirable degree, when the operator, taking aim to the best of his ability, suddenly lets the ball slip from his fingers, when, if the aim is properly taken, it hits the device within the circular figure C, Fig. 1, thus pressing the plate J backward, so that the projections N N are moved away from the projections P P. The contraction of the rubber loop L instantly draws up the plate J, and the top of the latter appears above the disk B, as shown in Fig. 1. The plateJ being then again pressed down with the finger, the device is ready for another experiment.

e sometimes put a pictorial device on the top of the plate J, also on the sliding plate at the point 0; and we do not confine ourselves to any particular spring or any peculiar arrangement of the same. We sometimes also substitute for our handle A a standard, or we support the toy by hanging it up, adding thereto what device may be convenient for that purpose; and it is not essential that the part J he made in the form of a plate, or that the disk B be made in a circular form.

We claim- A toy composed of a front piece furnished with an aperture, backed with a plate or other object, the latter held down by the latch arrangement described and raised by a spring, in combination with a projectile attached to the rest of the device by an elastic spring, all constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown.

GEORGE STOUT.

ALEXANDER CHARLES STOUT.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL P. J ENKS, E. B. EDWARDS. 

